# Juan Pons

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'''Joan Pons Álvarez''' ([Ciutadella](/source/Ciutadella_de_Menorca), [Spain](/source/Spain), 8 August 1946) is a Spanish [opera](/source/opera)tic [baritone](/source/baritone), known internationally as '''Juan Pons'''. He is most famous for his Verdi roles.<ref>Salazar, David. ''Artist Profile: Spanish baritone Juan Pons, Verdi specialist''. Opera Wire, Aug 8th 2018. Available at: https://operawire.com/artist-profile-spanish-baritone-juan-pons-verdi-specialist/ (Retrieved: January 27th 2023).</ref>

==Career==
Pons made his international début in 1980 at the [Teatro alla Scala](/source/Teatro_alla_Scala) of [Milan](/source/Milan) with ''[Falstaff](/source/Falstaff_(opera))'', staged by [Giorgio Strehler](/source/Giorgio_Strehler) and conducted by [Lorin Maazel](/source/Lorin_Maazel). Since then, he has been a guest of the most important theatres all over the world, including the [Metropolitan Opera House](/source/Metropolitan_Opera_House_(Lincoln_Center)) of [New York](/source/New_York_City), the [Vienna Staatsoper](/source/Vienna_Staatsoper), [Covent Garden](/source/Royal_Opera_House) in London, the [Opéra](/source/Palais_Garnier) of Paris, [Zürich](/source/Z%C3%BCrich), the [Liceo](/source/Liceo) in [Barcelona](/source/Barcelona) and the [Arena of Verona](/source/Arena_of_Verona).

His repertoire includes all the main baritone roles. Besides Falstaff, a role he played in 1993 at the La Scala under [Riccardo Muti](/source/Riccardo_Muti) on the occasion of the centennial anniversary of its first performance, he has interpreted many of [Verdi](/source/Verdi)'s most important baritone roles in ''[Il trovatore](/source/Il_trovatore)'', [Aida](/source/Aida), ''[Ernani](/source/Ernani)'', ''[Un ballo in maschera](/source/Un_ballo_in_maschera)'', ''[Rigoletto](/source/Rigoletto)'', ''[La forza del destino](/source/La_forza_del_destino)'', ''[La traviata](/source/La_traviata)'', ''[Simon Boccanegra](/source/Simon_Boccanegra), [Nabucco](/source/Nabucco)'' and ''[Macbeth](/source/Macbeth_(Verdi))''. He has performed in [Leoncavallo](/source/Ruggiero_Leoncavallo)'s ''[Pagliacci](/source/Pagliacci)'', [Mascagni](/source/Pietro_Mascagni)'s ''[Cavalleria rusticana](/source/Cavalleria_rusticana)'' and [Puccini](/source/Giacomo_Puccini)'s ''[Tosca](/source/Tosca)'', ''[Gianni Schicchi](/source/Gianni_Schicchi)'', ''[Il tabarro](/source/Il_tabarro)'', ''[La fanciulla del West](/source/La_fanciulla_del_West)'' and ''[Madama Butterfly](/source/Madama_Butterfly)''.

Besides the mainstream repertoire, Juan Pons has also sung less well-known works such as ''[Aroldo](/source/Aroldo)'', ''[Hérodiade](/source/H%C3%A9rodiade)'', ''[Roberto Devereux](/source/Roberto_Devereux)'' and [Respighi](/source/Ottorino_Respighi)'s ''La fiamma''.

As of 2011, Juan Pons has sung 337 performances at the [Metropolitan Opera House](/source/Metropolitan_Opera_House_(Lincoln_Center)) in New York City.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juan Pons |url=https://www.opera-arias.com/singers/juan-pons/ |access-date=2026-04-01 |website=Opera-Arias.com |language=en}}</ref>

In the 1997–98 season he was in a production of ''[Sly](/source/Sly_(opera))'' by [Wolf-Ferrari](/source/Ermanno_Wolf-Ferrari) alongside [José Carreras](/source/Jos%C3%A9_Carreras), as well as in [Giordano](/source/Umberto_Giordano)'s ''La Cena delle Beffe'', both productions presented at the [Zurich Opera](/source/Zurich_Opera). Furthermore, he sang ''[Aida](/source/Aida)'' at the [Teatro Real](/source/Teatro_Real) of [Madrid](/source/Madrid). In the summer of 1998 he sang in a production of ''Pagliacci'' staged by [Liliana Cavani](/source/Liliana_Cavani) and conducted by [Riccardo Muti](/source/Riccardo_Muti) alongside [Plácido Domingo](/source/Pl%C3%A1cido_Domingo) at the [Ravenna Festival](/source/Ravenna_Festival), to which he later returned in 2001 as Falstaff, once again under the baton of Muti.

In 2002 he appeared in ''Sly'' and ''Rigoletto'' at the Metropolitan Opera House, in ''Madama Butterfly'' in Tokyo under the baton of [Myung-whun Chung](/source/Myung-whun_Chung) and in Simon Boccanegra at the [Opéra Bastille](/source/Op%C3%A9ra_Bastille) of Paris. His commitments for 2003 included: ''Madama Butterfly'' at the [Teatro Comunale](/source/Teatro_Comunale_di_Firenze) in [Florence](/source/Florence), ''[Andrea Chénier](/source/Andrea_Ch%C3%A9nier)'' and ''Simon Boccanegra'' at the [Teatro Regio di Torino](/source/Teatro_Regio_di_Torino), ''[La Gioconda](/source/La_Gioconda_(opera))'' and ''[Don Carlos](/source/Don_Carlos)'' at the Zurich Opera, ''[Otello](/source/Otello)'' at the [New National Theatre Tokyo](/source/New_National_Theatre_Tokyo), ''Aida'' at the Liceo of Barcelona.

During 2004 he sang ''Aida'', ''Rigoletto'', ''Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' at the [Metropolitan Opera](/source/Metropolitan_Opera), ''Macbeth'' at the Liceo of Barcelona, ''Madama Butterfly'' at the Arena of Verona, at the [Torre del Lago](/source/Torre_del_Lago) [Puccini Festival](/source/Festival_Puccini) and on a tour in [Japan](/source/Japan) with the same festival, ''La fanciulla del West'' and ''La traviata'' at the Zurich Opera and ''Aida'', ''Nabucco'', and ''Tosca'' at the Vienna Staatsoper.

In 2005 he recorded Puccini's ''[Edgar](/source/Edgar_(opera))'' with Plácido Domingo with [Deutsche Grammophon](/source/Deutsche_Grammophon).

==Videography==
* ''[James Levine's 25th Anniversary Metropolitan Opera Gala](/source/James_Levine's_25th_Anniversary_Metropolitan_Opera_Gala)'' (1996), Deutsche Grammophon DVD, B0004602-09

==Bibliography==
*[Antoni Pizà](/source/Antoni_Piz%C3%A0), Bartomeu Amengual, [Luciano Pavarotti](/source/Luciano_Pavarotti): ''Bravo Joan Pons'' (Palma de Mallorca: Documenta Balear, 2001)  {{ISBN|84-95694-23-9}}

==References==
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== External links ==
*[http://www.juanpons.com/ Official webpage]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20070313233649/http://www.lacoctelera.com/operasiempre/post/2006/04/07/juan-pons-pagliacci- Video of Juan Pons] in [I Pagliacci](/source/I_Pagliacci)

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Category:People from Ciutadella de Menorca
Category:Musicians from the Balearic Islands
Category:Spanish operatic baritones
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